6 PHALAROPE. 



one inch long ; irides dark ; hind part of the head and neck dusky 

 brown, dashed with ash-colour; upper parts of the body, scapulars, 

 and wing coverts, cinereous grey, the feathers of the last darkest, 

 and edged with white; forehead, crown, chin, and all the under 

 parts, pure white, except the bend of the wing, and the sides of the 

 breast, which are cinereous ; on the cheek a dusky spot ; quills 

 black ; tail dusky, edged with ash ; legs compressed like those of the 

 Diver, and pale ; toes scolloped, membranes serrated on their mar- 

 gins. This description is taken from a specimen killed in a pond at 

 Alderton, in Wiltshire, in the collection of the late Col. Montagu ; 

 that of the Br. Zool. had the forehead white; crown dusky, hind 

 part of the neck light grey; the rest of the parts above deep dove- 

 colour, marked with dusky spots; scapulars edged with white; breast 

 and belly white; tail dusky, the feathers edged with ash-colour. 

 This was shot in Yorkshire, and communicated by Mr. Edwards. 

 Another, in my own collection, had the whole of the top of the 

 head, sides, chin, and neck white; hindhead and neck dusky; prime 

 quills plain; the secondaries margined with white; the scolloped 

 membranes yellowish. I have likewise met with another, with the 

 whole head and neck brown ; the chin alone being white. 



The above mostly inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Iceland, 

 and Greenland; is frequent throughout Siberia, about lakes and 

 rivers, especially in autumn ; has also been met with among the ice 

 between Asia and America, and, if the same as that in the Phil. 

 Trans, is found in the salt marshes, and in flocks about the borders 

 of the Caspian Sea : as to England, it is a rare species. 



4— FLAT-BILLED PHALAROPE. 



Tringa fulicaria, Lin. i. 249. Fn. Groenl. No. 70. Brun. No. 172. Muller, No. 195. 

 Tringa hypeiborea, Gm. Lin. i. p. 676. Var. /3. 



Phalaropus Platyrhynchos, Flat-billed Phalarope, Lin. Trans, xii. p. 536. 

 Phalaropus rufescens, Bris. vi. 20. Id. 8vo. ii. 363. 



